The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha by the home minister, Amit Shah, has attracted criticism from the opposition parties by calling it as a tool to violate the fundamental rights of citizens.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report which accused India of human-rights violation in Kashmir yet again. It has also warned Pakistan for detaining Kashmiri separatists in its part of disputed region.
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In a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling government, 21 Congress ministers and nine JDS ministers resigned from the state cabinet to placate the 14 rebel MLAs who withdrew their support to the Congress-JD(S) coalition government.
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The Indian Air Force’s pet project for 56 medium transport aircraft by the Tata-Airbus consortium is in the pipeline to get started this year, TOI has reported. Another long-pending “Make in India” plane project worth ₹1.5 lakh crore that involves 114 fighter jets is awaiting the final nod.
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The ruling Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka is facing a huge crisis following the resignation of 12 Congress legislators from the assembly, on Saturday. This started with two Congress MLAs resigning, on Monday.
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The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government of Uttar Pradesh has decided to issue caste certificates to members of 17 other backward classes. This decision is seen as a political ploy for the 2022 assembly election.
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The National Health Mission said 45 people have died until July 3 since the outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Assam. The affected areas include the upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur and lower Assam district of Kamrup.
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Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the economic survey in Parliament, on Thursday, which projected gross domestic product growth at 7 per cent in the 2019-20 fiscal year from an estimated 6.8 per cent in the previous year.
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The heavy security measures undertaken for the annual Amarnath yatra, which commenced earlier this week in Jammu & Kashmir, have drew criticism from the locals for the inconvenience they are facing in their daily lives.
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Claiming responsibility for the Lok Sabha election debacle, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in an open letter to party workers, resigned from his post and said it was an honour to serve the party. He said that it would be unjust to “ignore” his own responsibility for the election defeat.
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